2016 LEX: SALT LAKE CITY L 1 FINDING INSPIRATION in SALT LAKE

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Influencing our behaviors, from making healthy food choices to how we commute to criminal activity, is an underlying challenge driving many community issues. Understanding motivation—why someone makes a certain choice—is often considered the key to large-scale social change. Humans are complex, as Joseph Grenny, the social scientist known for his bestselling book Influencer: The New Science of Leading Change, reminded 165 business and civic leaders who traveled to Salt Lake City for the Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation’s Leadership Exchange (LEX) in September. Real change requires leaders to understand the many factors influencing human behavior and design systems change that addresses both motivation and ability. Effective leadership is teaching and creating a conducive space for people to practice change, Grenny told us. It’s a provocative idea.

But Grenny didn’t just share his theory of change. He introduced our delegation to Dave Durocher, a long-time prison inmate and addict. Durocher is a graduate of Delancey Street, a residential program in California that allowed him to develop the skills he needed to turn around his life. Today, he serves as managing director of The Other Side Academy in Salt Lake City, a two-year program for people who have been incarcerated, experienced homelessness or dealt with substance abuse, offering vocational training, education, counseling, mentorship and leadership training—all at no cost.

It’s an approach that inspired a number of delegates, including Denver Mayor Michael B. Hancock, who challenged the delegation to learn more about bringing this model to Denver. Dozens pledged their support to explore the current services in Denver and continue to engage with The Other Side Academy. Since the trip, interested members of the delegation have met with Grenny and his team. A group of participants has stepped up to continue moving this idea forward.

The delegation of the 27th Leadership Exchange also focused on mobility planning, tourism, workforce development, community engagement, housing and homelessness and big, bold events like the Sundance Film Festival and the 2002 Winter Olympics.

For more information or to get involved in the outcomes of LEX: Salt Lake City, please email Kirsten Vermulen at [email protected].

Best,

Dan Lewis Executive Director Denver Metro Chamber Leadership Foundation

2 l DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION BY THE NUMBERS

50 SPEAKERS

165 DELEGATES

4 ELECTED OFFICIALS

26 INDUSTRY SECTORS REPRESENTED

10 EXPERIENCES SHOWCASING EVERYTHING FROM TOURISM AND THE ARTS TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND MOBILITY PLANNING

2 STUDENTS ATTENDED

12 SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED

2016 LEX: SALT LAKE CITY l 3 HOSTED BY:

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PLENARY SPONSORS

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HOSPITALITY SPONSOR

2016 LEX: SALT LAKE CITY l 5 NETWORKING SPONSORS

COMMUNITY SPONSORS

Core Contractors | CRL Associates, Inc. Denver Urban Renewal Authority | Hensel Phelps Turner Construction

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Mayor Jackie Biskupski Fraser Bullock Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox Salt Lake City Managing Director State of Utah Sorenson Capital Former COO 2002 Winter Olympics

Joseph Grenny Mayor Michael B. Hancock Gov. John W. Hickenlooper Co-founder City and County of Denver State of Colorado VitalSmarts

Mayor Ben McAdams Josh Perkins Pamela Perlich Salt Lake County Co-founder Director of Demographic Research Bboy Federation Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute

2016 LEX: SALT LAKE CITY l 7 DELEGATE REFLECTIONS

Denver’s civic leadership is thoughtful, It’s imperative that public-private progressive and active. Experiences like partnerships continue to work diligently LEX energize the efforts that exist and to tackle challenging issues. need constant work. – Mark Isakson, vice president of – Laura Rinker, marketing director, GE Insurance Operations, Pinnacol Johnson Construction Company Assurance

Change will occur when we all work The Utah Department of Transportation together toward a common passion and and Colorado Department of outcome. Transportation really demonstrated the limitations and obstacles to the Colorado – Jillian Queri, Colorado Leadership transportation improvements and how we Alliance student representative, stack up against other agencies. University of Denver – Brian Holland, business development executive, Mortenson Construction

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10 l DENVER METRO CHAMBER LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION THURSDAY, SEPT. 22 Utah Olympic Park: A Living Legacy

Guided Tour – Delegates learned about each Zip Line – The extreme zip line is one of the competition and training site, the athletes who use steepest zip lines in the world; delegates them, the 2002 Olympic history and future plans experienced what it’s like to be an Olympian flying for the Utah Olympic Park. They also visited one off the K120 Nordic ski jump at speeds of world- of the world’s fastest sliding tracks and saw an class ski jumpers. athlete’s perspective of the highest Nordic ski jump in the world. FRIDAY, SEPT. 23 Leadership Summit: Utah | Colorado Panel: Tackling Community Challenges with Courage and Persistence: Housing and Ending The Leadership Summit served as a platform Homelessness for Colorado and Utah leaders to connect and Moderator: Jamie Van Leeuwen, senior advisor, collaborate on issues critical to our shared future Office of Gov. Hickenlooper in the Intermountain West. In an effort to seed Lloyd Pendleton, former director of the State of lasting partnerships, we convened thought Utah’s Homeless Task Force leaders from both states for actionable dialogue on workforce development, air quality, growing our outdoor industries and strategies for addressing homelessness.

Panel: Workforce Development Panel: Air Quality Colorado Panelists Colorado Panelists Moderator: Holli Riebel, COO, Denver Metro Moderator: Tom Clark, CEO, Metro Denver Economic Chamber of Commerce Development Corporation Noel Ginsburg, president & CEO, Intertech Plastics Andy Spielman, chair of the Regional Air Quality and chair, BEL Commission Council, and co-partner-in-charge, Denver Office, Dr. Stephen Jordan, president, Metropolitan State Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr University of Denver

Utah Panelists Utah Panelists Ben Hart, managing director of Urban & Rural Ted Wilson, former Salt Lake City mayor & Business Services, Governor’s Office of Economic executive director of UCAIR Development Deneise Lacy, human resources manager, The Boeing Company

2016 LEX: SALT LAKE CITY l 11 Panel: Growing our Outdoor industries George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Theater. The Colorado Panelists original Downtown Rising plan was a guiding Moderator: Pam Reichert, vice president, Metro vision that blended public and private interests Denver Economic Development Corporation driven by the Salt Lake Chamber in partnership Luis Benitez, director, Office of Outdoor Recreation with the Downtown Alliance to shape the future of Industry, State of Colorado downtown Salt Lake City. In 2017, the Downtown Alliance will launch Downtown Rising 2.0. Utah Panelists Tom Adams, director, Office of Outdoor Recreation, Petzl: North American Headquarters State of Utah Outdoor recreation contributes more than $5.8 Lassonde Studios: University of Utah billion to the Utah economy, employs more than Entrepreneur Institute 65,000 people and is the primary driver behind the tourism industry in the state. A recreation, The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute and the industrial and emergency rescue equipment and David Eccles School of Business have developed training company, Petzl’s roots lie in the desire of a new model for entrepreneurial, cross-discipline its founders to serve one passion: exploration. Petzl education: the Lassonde Studios. The studios will continues to invent products and provide solutions house more than 400 unique student residences that allow sports enthusiasts and professionals to and 20,000 square feet of “garage” space where access some of the most inaccessible places, both any student on campus can build a prototype, day and night. attend an event or launch a company. It will be the place where students “Live. Create. Launch.” Petzl is one of many companies that have chosen to headquarter their U.S. operations in Utah due to A top-25 entrepreneurship program, the school the access to talent, a growing industry hub and, of offers a major and minor in entrepreneurship and course, proximity to the great outdoors. an interdisciplinary certificate in entrepreneurship to all undergraduate students. The university Salt Lake City Off the Grid: Bicycle Tour continues to be among the best schools for prize money available to student entrepreneurs, Delegates got off the grid with an interactive awarding $536,000 to student projects in 2014-15. bicycle tour hosted by a Salt Lake City native, discovering city-close neighborhoods, urban Downtown Rising: Walking Tour parks and architectural gems. They experienced the renowned bicycle lane infrastructure outside In 2006, much of downtown Salt Lake’s retail the city’s core and explored a few hidden treasures storefronts were boarded up. Over the last 10 many tourists miss. years, the downtown Salt Lake area has expanded by over 4,000 units. The urban core boasts the $1.5 billion City Creek Center, several new commercial towers, light-rail lines, thousands of new apartments and stores, a growing resident population and major attractions such as the

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Spy Hop: Youth Media Matters organization where criminals, homeless and substance abusers can change their lives, free of Spy Hop is a nonprofit youth media arts charge. Their comprehensive two-year residential organization whose mission is to mentor young program offers vocational training, education, peer people in the digital media arts to help them find counseling and mentoring, leadership training and their voice, tell their stories and be empowered transitional services. to affect positive change in their lives, their communities and the world. Since its inception in They are not a rehab facility in the traditional sense 1999, Spy Hop has provided over 20,000 young nor are they a residential treatment facility. Their people, ages 10-20, with introductory, intermediate emphasis is not on drugs or alcohol. Rather, they and advanced programming in film, audio, music are a peer community for learning life skills. During and design while preparing them for a future in their stay, the students in the program receive the growing digital and creative economy. Each an education, acquire marketable vocational and year, students create over 700 works of media that social skills and earn the self-respect necessary to are shared with local, national and international let go of their past. audiences. Spy Hop is considered one of the leading youth media organizations in the country. Through three student-managed social In 2015, they won the National Arts and Humanities enterprises and revenue from training programs, Youth Program Award from the President’s the organization is 95 percent financially self- Committee on the Arts and the Humanities and sufficient. were named one of seven global Adobe Creative Catalysts. Infrastructure Innovations: Bicycle Tour

A Tourist Mecca: Temple Square VIP Walking Like Denver, Salt Lake City is committed to Tour providing urban mobility through a diversity of transportation choices, including walking, bicycling, Salt Lake City is an international tourist destination transit and driving. The city’s bicycle initiatives have home to Temple Square – Utah’s No. 1 tourist improved safety, enhanced quality of life, provided attraction and headquarters of the Church of Jesus sustainable and healthy transportation choices and Christ of Latter-day Saints. An estimated five million improved air quality in the region. Salt Lake City is visitors come each year to see the Salt Lake Temple creating low-stress, people-friendly streetscapes and the world-renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir, through protected bike lanes, turn boxes, cross- as well as to learn about the area’s pioneer history. walk and light sensors and first-last mile transit options. The Other Side Academy: A Model for Change

The Other Side Academy, modeled after San Francisco’s Delancey Street, is a nonprofit

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Lead Change. On this invitation-only trip, more than 100 business and civic leaders go to the source of innovative community leadership taking place in a U.S. or international city to explore and learn together, then bring back big ideas to improve Colorado.

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The Denver Metro Chamber Leadership IMPACT Foundation educates and inspires people who • Explore the latest leadership trends and innovations of want to make a difference as leaders in their another community, then launch new ideas in the community. For more than 40 years we’ve Denver metro area worked as an affiliate of the Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce to build • Activate your network and make new connections strong, diverse community leaders. No • Reach top influencers and decision-makers across all matter where you are in your leadership sectors of our community journey, from college to senior executives, we offer a program that will give you the tools you need to make an IS THIS FOR ME? impact. Although participation in this program is by invitation only, nominations are accepted six months before departure to Start your journey today at ensure a diverse delegation with broad experience and denverleadership.org/leadershipexchange relevant expertise.

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